Phonetics : Principles and Practices (3 Revised edition)

This text clearly delineates the importance of mastery of transcription to understanding normal speech, the developing speech of young children and disordered speech.

It then provides a solid foundation for students in learning the principles of speech sound production and phonetic transcription with the goal of enabling students to write rules to describe the speech patterns of any speaker and use those rules to both diagnose and treat speech disorders.